Adventure in Soundland

On the final stretch. Just finishing up the electronics then rip it all down to sand off all the rust and coat it all in something that’ll last. There’ll be three knobs to control volumes. One for the stainless steel “gongs” which are mic’d by electret mics up and under the gongs. Another for the [...]

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Drums are hard for me to play. That simple. And then compound that with the fact that building something, without electronics yet, that is then very quiet and you have my first embarrasing performance. Yesterday arvo I made this. Yesterday night I played this.

It’s setup for use with piezos, not attached yet though, that drive [...]

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Yesterday was interesting. I took two friends, Lin and Doug, to a Vit S concert at this little bar thats part of the New Gallery complex in town. I wanted to introduce the music I’m into to Lin, Doug has already had the Vit S intro, because it was important to me that she experienced [...]

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Last night we had an impromptu workshop ’cause this guy, Chris from Wellington, is leaving for Toronto in Canada, and I didn’t, yesterday morning, have a new instrument to play. Why would I need a new instrument you ask when I can just get out an old one? Keeping it fresh is my answer, keeping [...]

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So Mum’s just left the country for her yearly sojourn back to Canada and this leaves me with 8 weeks to scatter my stuff all over the place and actually get some stuff done. I know I’ve written about all these other new projects but this morning I decided to get an old one out [...]

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I’ve got these huge long pipes that they bury in the roadsides to carry away our debris and I’ve been half thinking of doing something musical with them for a while so last night as I’m winding down from the good vibe energy transmitted to me during performance I was looking on the ‘net for [...]

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At Vitamin one of the movers and shakers is a man named Drew who has the misfortune of being somewhat paralysed. I’m not here to discuss the merits or lack thereof except to say that what is off the cuff termed misfortune has created a willingness in me to do some problem solving. The problem [...]

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